The Siena Heights University women's basketball team hosted Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference opponent Cornerstone on Wednesday and came away with a 52-37 win.

Siena Heights (15-7, 11-4 WHAC) earned its sixth straight victory and remained third in the league standings.

The Saints started the game going 0-for-4 from the field. Jen Jasinski hit the team's first basket at the 16:04 mark of the first half, which tied the game at 2 apiece. That basket sparked a 6-0 run for the Saints.

Cornerstone (14-8, 8-6) cut the lead to 7-6 on a layup by Katelyn Cousins. That was followed up with a Saints 10-4 run to extend the lead back out to seven, 17-10, with just over seven minutes to go in the first half. Siena Heights continued to pressure the Eagles as it went on a 7-2 run to take a 24-12 lead with 3:32 left in the first half. NAIA All-American Robyn Veltkamp hit two free throws for Cornerstone with five seconds left in the half to cut the lead to single digits, 24-16.

The Saints kept Veltkamp, the Eagles' leading scorer, to just 11 points on the night, eight points under her season average of 17.9 points per game.

"Defensively we played well," said Coach Sue Syljebeck. "Veltkamp is just a tremendous player, so for (Sierra) Calhoun, Morgan (Warfield) and (Taylor) Langenderfer and our team to hold her to 11 points, they did a great job."

Cornerstone shot 24 percent in the first half and 23.9 for the game.

The Eagles got down early in the second half, 30-22 with just under 17 minutes to play, but fought back to within three, 30-27. The Saints didn't back down, extending the lead on a 13-3 run to make it 43-30. The Saints held Cornerstone to seven points in the last 5:31 of the game to win 52-37 and sweep the season series against the Eagles.

Jasinski led a balanced Siena Heights attack with 10 points and seven rebounds. Chandler Levit had nine points and 10 rebounds. Morgan Warfield also scored nine points, while Amanda Duke and Grace Howrigon each scored eight to help the Saints to a big conference win.

"It was just a rough game, " Syljebeck said. "We looked a little tired out there, and they changed up their defense, switching between zone and man, and that bothered us a bit."